[Zope-dev] stacks != easy to explain

Florent Guillaume fg@nuxeo.com
Wed, 15 May 2002 21:51:51 +0000 (UTC)


Don Hopkins <xardox@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com> wrote:
> > ...Solved by making it absolutely clear what order stuff executes in.
> > If I was training
> > people, I'd tell them to write it in that order too...
> 
> You can't make the order of XML attribute execution clear, because they are
> defined as unordered.
> 
> If you're using ordered attributes, then you're not using XML.

What Chris means (and it's specified in the TAL documentation) is that
for instance "define" attributes are executed before "repeat"
attributes.

Of course we all know that XML attributes can be reorganized by any
parser or whatever. This is not what is meant here.

Florent

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